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Offline Benody1921

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The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« on: Sunday 09 December 18 02:46 GMT (UK) »
I need some help finding the whereabouts of my 2nd great-grandfather between around 1891 and 1921.
This is what I know of him:
- born 6 Jan 1850 Quarry Bank, Kingswinford Staffordshire (source: birth certificate)
- 1851 and 1861 lived with parents and siblings. In 1861 was an iron labourer.
- 1871 was a stock taker
- 24 Jun 1872 married Betsy Brooks at St. Kenelms, Romsley (source: marriage certificate)
- 1881 lived on Belmont Road with wife and mother in law. Occupation was bucket maker.
- trade directories show him as a bucket maker or galvanizer in 1888, 1889, 1890, and 1891.
- Crabbe Street Infant School admission records in 1891 or 1892 mentions him as the father to George Harry Brooks Dunn
- he is mentioned in his mother-in-law's Will written in 1891 but only as the husband to her daughter 

He disappears after that. He isn't in the 1891 census, in 1901 and 1911 his wife Betsy calls herself a widow (I believe they separated or divorced) and there is nothing from him again until his son's marriage in 1915. The marriage certificate has him as a Sheet Iron Worker (master). I have a death certificate for an Edwin Dunn. At first I thought it was the wrong man but then I decided to trace all of the Edwin Dunns born around 1850 and my Edwin is the only one whose birth fits by a long shot.

Death Certificate states died 13 Aug 1921 at District Hospital. Address was 6 Bell Fold, Rood End, Oldbury. Occupation: General Labourer. Informant was S.A. Dickins of 12 Bell Fold, Rood End, Oldbury. Died of inoperable cancer of rectum and intestinal obstruction.

I have no idea where he was or what he was doing from about 1891 until his (possible) death in 1921. Any help finding him would be great.
Stuart (India, Antrim, Armagh)
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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 09 December 18 03:44 GMT (UK) »
Mother-in-law's Will, 1892.......is 1892 the year of her death, or the year the Will was written up?

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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 09 December 18 04:49 GMT (UK) »
Oh good point! I just looked at the Will and it was written in February of 1891. Thanks for catching that.
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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 09 December 18 09:13 GMT (UK) »
Are you sure that the 1921 death isn't the Edwin Dunn married to Rosa?
1911 free index
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWWC-JJB

They may be living close to that address on the death certificate


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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 09 December 18 09:22 GMT (UK) »
Are you sure that the 1921 death isn't the Edwin Dunn married to Rosa?
1911 free index
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWWC-JJB

They may be living close to that address on the death certificate

Edwin, married to Rosa, died in 1933. His burial can be found on FreeReg.
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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 09 December 18 09:52 GMT (UK) »
The only Edwin Dunn 1933 burial I can see on FreeReg is the Quarry Bank one. Age 86, address Birch Coppice. Death registered Stourbridge.
Could he not be the Quarry Bank chap married to Mary Ann in 1901?
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS3W-96G

I think he's still around in 1911.

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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 09 December 18 13:18 GMT (UK) »
I just looked through my notes and found that the Edwin Dunn who married Mary Ann Yardley is the one who died in 1933. I'm not sure where my notes on Edwin and Rosa Dunn are but I know I wrote down all the possible Edwins born around that time and found their deaths.
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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 09 December 18 13:22 GMT (UK) »
It's always worth checking the name.
I have lost count of the Edwins in my tree who have been mistranscribed as Edward.
Not a lot of help I know, but worth considering.

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Re: The Disappearance of Edwin Dunn
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 09 December 18 13:23 GMT (UK) »
It's always worth checking the name.
I have lost count of the Edwins in my tree who have been mistranscribed as Edward.
Not a lot of help I know, but worth considering.

Very true. On Betsy's death certificate the coroner was the informant and called her the widow of Edward Dunn.
Stuart (India, Antrim, Armagh)
Whiting (Bedfordshire)
Dunn/Taylor (Worcestershire)
Pearson (Worcestershire)
Hill/Rhodes (Worcestershire)
Gough (Warwickshire)
Perry (Devon, Worcestershire)
Maynard (Essex, Yorkshire)
Jennings (Devon)
Coldicott (Warwickshire, Gloucestershire)